Piper PA-24-250
N5966P is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mr Dent INC, a corporation in Manheim, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-1059
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A7B6E9 (octal 51733351)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00342015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mr Dent INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 971 Park Hill Dr
Manheim, PA 17545-9741
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5966P, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Mr Dent INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5966P according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N5966P: Accident on September 6, 2014 at Mesa, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 24-250 · operated under 091
The failure of the right main landing gear (MLG) transmission mounting bracket coupled with the differential rigging of the two landing gear cables, which prevented the right MLG from moving to the down-and-locked position before landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14LA368 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
